ns and verifications Data policy Transparency See all Europa Science Experience Scientific excellence for EU policy More about us Meet the passionate scientists of the Joint Research Centre EAC-Translation Memory Introduction Languages / File format Text types / Domain Statistics on the corpus Conditions for Use Further Translation Memories available here Download the EAC Translation Memory Referring to this resource Acknowledgements and Contact Introduction In October 2012, the European Union's (EU) Directorate General for Education and Culture ( DG EAC ) released a translation memory (TM), i.e. a collection of sentences and their professionally produced translations, in twenty-six languages. The data gets distributed via the web pages of the EC's Joint Research Centre (JRC). Here we describe this resource, which bears the name EAC Translation Memory, short EAC-TM. view details Translation Memories are parallel texts , i.e. texts and their manually produced translations. They are also referred to as bi-texts. A translation memory is a collection of small text segments and their translations (referred to as translation units, TU). These TUs can be sentences or parts of sentences. Translation memories are used to support translators by ensuring that pieces of text that have already been translated do not need to be translated again. Both translation memories and parallel texts are important linguistic resources that can be used for a variety of purposes , including: training automatic systems for statistical machine translation (SMT); producing monolingual or multilingual lexical and semantic resources such as dictionaries and ontologies; training and testing multilingual information extraction software; checking translation consistency automatically; testing and benchmarking alignment software (for sentences, words, etc.). The value of a parallel corpus grows with its size and with the number of languages for which translations exist. While parallel corpora for some